SRRC and SRF are hosting a Virtual Spring-run Chinook Symposium on July 23 and 24, 2020. There will be two partial days of presentations. Topics will include spring Chinook genetics, the impacts of climate change, restoration projects, historical distribution and reintroduction. The second day of this symposium will take the place of our monthly restoration webinar series. Although we'll miss gathering in person, we hope you'll join us for this event!

This webinar will examine the effects of food webs and aquatic habitat productivity on the growth of juvenile salmonids, particularly in productive ecosystems or where food webs strongly interact with physical habitat attributes to influence growth.

CalTrout Biologist Jacob Katz will begin the webinar with his talk from the postponed 2020 Conference agenda, entitled "Puddle Power: Reactivating Floodplains and Reenergizing River Food Webs".

Fish passage engineer Michael Love will begin the series with an overview of Part XII of the CDFW Salmonid Stream Habitat Restoration Manual, summarizing contemporary design approaches and implementation techniques for providing fish passage at existing and replacement stream crossings and other in-stream structures.  It will cover the stream simulation approach, culvert retrofits, and grade control techniques that include boulder and log weirs, geomorphically-based roughened channels, and pool-and-chute fishways.